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With Justin Bieber currently embroiled in his first drug scandal (don’t ask me how I know that), I thought this would be a good moment to go back in time and revisit Mr. Paul McCartney publicly admitting to using LSD, the first British pop star ever to do so. In his interview with ITV in [...]
Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may lie just on the other side of a wall. As crowds of vintage and antique lovers leave the train at Notting Hill Gate for a day of treasure hunting at Portobello market, they’re probably unaware of the most [...]
In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the [...]
Detroit’s horrible, beautiful decline has been so well documented by urban explorers that to the outside world, it might seem it’s the only thing to know about this once great industrial metropolis. And yet undeniably, it’s vast urban abandonment is intensely interesting. My latest guilty fascination is the Detroit’s renaissance revival theatre that has [...]
Image via here Before they are put to rest, airplanes undergo funeral-esque rituals known as ‘pickling’. Their engines are removed, the windows covered and the fluids drained. But of course these giants are too big to bury. In the parched deserts, where a dry climate is an old machine’s best ally, aircrafts young and [...]
There is no feeling quite like it, when you realize you’ve discovering something that’s been entirely forgotten and frozen in time. Cabel is the co-founder of a Mac and iOs software company in Portland, Oregon called Panic– not your everyday time-capsule explorer! But one day, Cabel decided to take a lonesome wander down to the basement [...]
The Brimfield Flea Market was founded in 1959 in Brimfield Massachusetts and has grown to become one of the largest flea markets in the world. Three times a year, the population of Brimfield swells from 3,000 to a quarter million, when treasure hunters flock to the fair in search of vintage Americana. One dealer sums [...]
Here’s something different for a holiday party– Dr. Pepper, as in the cherry cola, served as a hot beverage! In the 1960s, the soft drink brand made a go of marketing it as some kind of non-alcoholic alternative to mulled wine. Easy to prepare–simply heat Dr Pepper in a saucepan until it steams and pour [...]
Photograph by Thomas Wrede At their peak, in the late 1950s, there were almost 5000 drive-ins. Today, there are only 366 drive-ins operating in the United States. The outdoor theaters saw a dramatic decline in the 70s and 80s and many of their remains can still be found off highways, marked by rusting entrance marquees [...]
Still screening movies on 35 mm film, tucked away in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris is a 1960s cinematic time warp with a loyal appreciation for the forgotten vintage paragons of French erotica. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, I’ll admit, and you might be thinking that I’m really scraping the barrel here but hear [...]
The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators
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The boulangerie, boucherie, the epicerie, the caviste, the chocolatier, la coiffure; everyday
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The Citroën Karin was probably one of the most revolutionary concepts that came out of the 198os
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I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a
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The luxury French resort of a different variety … Photo source: Flick User An Agent Like a
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